Sensitiveness
['sɛnsətɪvnɪs]
Examples
- His sensitiveness to approbation, his hope of winning favor by an agreeable act, are made use of to induce action in another direction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Clearly Juan Luis was a man of very little honor, but of much sensitiveness in his work and he was also a great layer of women. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I said at the time that I always would mention it on every suitable occasion, without regard to personal sensitiveness. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was not joy only that possessed me; I felt my flesh tingle with excess of sensitiveness, and my pulse beat rapidly. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You haven't the same sensitiveness that a person of my constitution has. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She was so quick, and so lambent, like discernible fire, and so vindictive, and so rich in her dangerous flamy sensitiveness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Caroline no more showed such wounding sagacity or reproachful sensitiveness now than she had done when a suckling of three months old. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He is, this afternoon, in a state of nervous sensitiveness which just stops short of nervous irritation. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Rather, it loses something of its mobility and sensitiveness to suggestions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Schweigger in 1832 to increase the sensitiveness of a suspended magnetic needle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- His sensitiveness--that peculiar, apprehensive, detective faculty of his--felt in a moment the unspoken complaint--the scarce-thought reproach. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This process is characterized by simplicity, sensitiveness in action, permanence of print, and a peculiarly soft and artistic quality in the picture. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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